Man Group plc has acquired Aalto Invest Holding AG and launched a new ‘private markets offering’, Man Global Private Markets, designed to offer longer term investments and complement their existing products. Man defines private markets as real estate, credit and infrastructure. Founded in 2010 by Mikko Syrjänen and Petteri Barman,
Debt is becoming a more significant part of the unlisted infrastructure fund industry following strong fundraising activity in recent years, according to Preqin. 2012 marked the highest level of aggregate capital raised, as 21 funds secured USD12 billion in investor commitments, but the 14 funds closed in 2015 approached that
French asset management firm Amundi is launching a single platform designed to bring its real and alternative assets under one entity and drive its aim of becoming one of the leading alternative asset managers in Europe. The firm writes that real estate, private debt, private equity, infrastructure and alternative multi-management
The latest issue of Beauhurst’s The Deal shows that deal numbers in Britain’s start-ups and high growth companies in the first half of 2016 have fallen over 20 per cent compared to the second half of 2015. The firm writes that it appears that the EU referendum and its impact
Crowdfunding platform Seedrs has been named as Britain’s most active investor in private companies, ranked number one with 78 funded deals at the halfway point in 2016 according to a leading source of objective deep data on UK startups and scale ups. The company writes that it is experiencing exponential
Global infrastructure deal activity slowed in the second quarter, with just 225 deals concluded, down on the 339 transactions seen in Q1, according to the Preqin Q2 2016 infrastructure deals update. However, this downtick is not reflected in the total deal value, with the USD72 billion announced in Q2 approaching
Vincent Mortier (pictured), Deputy CIO, Global Head of Multi-Asset Amundi and Pascal Blanqué, CIO, Global Head of Institutional Division Amundi have issued a joint statement on the situation post Brexit. They write that a few days after the surprise vote in the UK, uncertainty remains high and that they believe
Investec Bank’s globally recognised aviation finance arm has successfully closed a USD1 billion operating lease transaction with Emirates Airline, the world’s largest operator of the Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft. The USD1 billion transaction has facilitated the delivery and sale and leaseback of four A380-800s, the world’s largest passenger jet,
Infrastructure investments have held up over the past five years but political and regulatory risk dominates investors’ lists of concerns according to the latest infrastructure investors survey from Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Deloitte surveyed 25 European infrastructure investors, including infrastructure funds and direct lenders, together holding over GBP200 billion
New research from BNY Mellon finds that private equity, real estate and infrastructure managers anticipate strong growth in assets in the next five years. The research, Building for the future: How alternative investment managers are rising to the demographic challenge, was prepared in collaboration with Preqin, finds that global macro-economic,
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